Republicans Must Not Fall for the Deficit Feint

This is the most important editorial that any sitting or aspiring Republican politician can possibly read. The deficit commission is a trap. This is what liberals do, they expand government recklessly and then start talking tough on deficits in order get conservatives to go along with closing the deficit caused by that enormous spending with tax hikes. The deficit isn't the real problem, the spending is the real problem. The successful Republican candidate of the future will not worry about deficits but will slash spending (and not the rate of spending increases, but the actual dollar amount of spending) and do it with a broadax, not a scalpel. Chris Christie has the right idea. Slashing the size of government by 20% should be the starting point for any aspiring Republican candidate for Congress, Governor or Mayor of a large city.